NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Three of the nation's five big
broadcast networks showed year-over-year declines in 2008 ad revenue, according
to TNS Media Intelligence, a sign that one of the media industry's most stable venues
continues to struggle in an extremely challenging and changing economic and
media landscape.

The wheels of progress continue to turn, ever so slowly, on
the labor front. But don't expect any breakthroughs before the Screen Actors
Guild's next national board meeting set for April 18-19.
FESTIVALS

The seventh annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles will
offer two separate panels focusing on Indian entertainment and filmmaking
through the lens of the business community at CAA's Ray Kurtzman Theater in
Century City on April 24.

The 33rd Cleveland International Film Festival, which ran
March 19-29, has announced its festival winners. The festival, which saw a 27%
increase in attendance over last year featured 68 sold-out screenings from 143
feature films.

from /Film by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com)
And let the overexposure of Star Trek clips begin! Paramount Pictures
has given MTV the first clip from the new JJ Abrams reboot, which
features Chris Pine as James T Kirk hitting on Uhura (Zoe Saldana) in a local
bar.

from MTV Movies Blog by Larry Carroll
"Star Trek" fever is gripping the world wide web, as the franchise re-boot was
unspooled Monday evening at Austin's Alamo Drafthouse, and fans and critics
alike have been weighing in with their thoughts. Now, MTV follows it up by
letting those outside the Texas area in on the fun, with this exclusive clip
from the May 8th blockbuster.

from /Film by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com)
According to a piece in the New York Times, Warner Bros. have gone so far as to place
adverts in Indian newspapers and film trade publications warning against the
plagiarism of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

from Splash Page by Josh Wigler
'Tis the season for Iron Man-ia! Forget all that casting mumbo jumbo (well,
maybe not all of it, as you'll see after the jump) -- that's old news now
that the highly anticipated "Iron Man 2" has entered principal photography.

from Splash Page by Casey Seijas
Manga's march to big screens in the U.S. continues, as The Hollywood Reporter dropped the news today that Mandalay
Pictures has acquired the rights to (and will develop) an adaptation based on
Shoji Gatoh's "Full Metal Panic!"

ABC'S Dancing With the Stars won another Monday, with 19.6
million viewers, according to preliminary overnight ratings. The night also
marked the premiere of Bob Saget's new sitcom, Surviving Suburbia, which
debuted to a nice 12.2 million pairs of eyes.

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- North Carolina's victory over
Michigan State in the NCAA basketball championship was a blowout on the court
and in the ratings. But the highly hyped matchup fell short of last year's
Kansas win over Memphis State.

from Defamer by Richard Lawson
Well, exit the Kings. NBC has
moved its lush, sweeping, and increasingly good dramatic experiment from
its valuable Sunday night slot to Saturdays, where it will play out its
remaining eight episodes, then die.

from MSNBC.com: Reality TV
Perhaps only cockeyed optimists believe reality shows are completely on the
up-and-up; or maybe it's just conspiracy theorists that believe every
detail is as meticulously planned as an episode of "CSI."

DETROIT (Reuters) - In a nod to the gloomy economy,
late-night comedian Jay Leno hosted a show on Tuesday to lift the battered
spirits of Detroit residents facing steep unemployment and a faltering auto
industry.

from Defamer by Dodai
Eminem's been away, and clearly his time off was spent watching reality TV,
visiting blogs and reading tabloids. His new video, "We Made You," opens with the rapper
dressed as Bret Michaels from Rock Of Love.

Punk rock icon Iggy Pop and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie
Wood, no strangers to drug and alcohol abuse, will perform at a fundraiser in
Los Angeles next month for musicians struggling with their addictions.

from Entertainment on HuffingtonPost.com by The Huffington Post
News Team
In the newest issue of Us Weekly, Lindsay Lohan opens up about her
heartbreaking split from Samantha Ronson, the "humiliating" weekend
showdown with Ronson's family, and says that friends' fears she is suicidal are
unfounded.

OctoMom Nadya Suleman actually does have a reality show in
the works. Often speculated about and even more often offered as motivation for
having octuplets to begin with, it seems that the OctoMom has negotiated a deal
with some network or online company to carry her story to the world.